Students interested in entering the field of occupational therapy may do so with a master's or doctoral degree. It is possible to enroll in either program and apply to transfer to the other later, as both the master's and the doctoral programs share the same curriculum for the first year of study. Students may also decide to apply to both programs if they like. Typically, the doctoral program a...

. No one who has any knowledge of hospitals 'n the United States of America could deny that the utilization of occupation as an adjunct to other means of therapy has reached a point of development far in advance of that attained in any other country. Although occupational therapy had been in existence in the United States for one hundred and fifty years prior to the outbreak of the Great War, t...

Occupational therapists prevent dysfunction and maintain and restore function for people with HIV/AIDS in the areas of work, selfcare and play/leisure. These occupational areas are assessed and treated from psychosocial, physical and environmental perspectives. This article examines occupational therapy assessment and treatment for people with HIV/AIDS with the primary focus on adaptive equipme...

According to the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), occupational therapies may be used to treat children with birth injuries or birth defects, sensory processing/integrative disorders, traumatic injuries (brain or spinal cord), learning problems, autism and pervasive developmental disorders, mental health or behavioral problems, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and...

The procedures that may be useful therapeutically are without number, the only limitation being the specific need of the individual patient, from both the psychological and physiological viewpoints. The active interest and co-operation of the patient is a great help, and in the early stages every effort to arouse these should be made. Although stress is placed upon the individual needs of each ...

There are many unanswered questions about the concept of spirituality and its relationship to occupational performance. The role of occupational therapists in addressing clients' spiritual needs is unclear, and the inclusion of spirituality as a topic in the educational curricula of occupational therapy students requires further attention. Focus groups and surveys were used in this phenomenolog...

Occupational engagement was first described in 1980 by Elizabeth Yerxa. Forty years later, the concept has no consensual definition literature. Despite a lack of common agreement, occupational been used to describe ultimate goal therapy several documents associations and research articles. The opinion piece discusses importance implications for profession focuses on five descriptions word "prom...